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“Captives of the Eidolon of the Unthinkable”
From Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual comes Cornelius Zappencackler’s Pulp Sci-Fi Title-o-Tron. Keep refreshing the page and thrill to Strange Space Beast of Europa, gasp at The Forgotten Perisphere of Earth, and be amazed by Transformed by the Atomic Creature. The rest of the site is pretty cool, too. I especially like their Ask…
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Trivia Thursday
Who’s the Cap’n of the Bishops? In which planetary system did Luke take his Jedi training with Yoda? In this book, the child hero is subjected to horrific manipulation by the military in order to make him the perfect commander able to annihilate the insectoid aliens who have twice attacked the solar system. Name this…
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Time Sink du Jour
Clear your schedule and head over to NASA’s Eyes on the Earth (plugin installation may be required). It’s a dashboard that displays the positions of NASA’s Earth-observing satellites and describes what they’re doing.
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Excellent Point
Click for a larger version, and see Abstruse Goose for amusing mouseover text and a theory about R2D2’s nefarious true motives.
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Cut Out and Keep
Reddit has some important instructions for making first contact: Image | Comments Seriously. Don’t f$%k this up.
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Dammit Jim, I’m a Doctor Not a Baritone
The Hi-Fidelity Quartet participated in the Barbershop Harmony Society International Contest with this entry. Part 1: Part 2:
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Trivia Thursday
This Robert L. Forward novel is about a race that evolves on the surface of a neutron star and which lives on a vastly compressed time scale, but nevertheless manages to make contact with human observers. Name it! What does the “T” in “James T. Kirk” stand for? This first collection of R.A. Lafferty precedes…
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BANG! The Universe Verse
James Lu Dunbar is creating a series of rhyming comic books that illustrate scientific theories about the origin of the universe. Book 1 is available for free as individual images on his site or as a PDF (email him with your request). You can also get a higher-resolution eBook for $5 or a physical copy…
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Link Dump
R2D2 Costume – Warning: May burn your eyes out. Savage Chickens – This just amused me. Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo? – Extremely cool (although sadly explicable) photo. Giant Lego Tarantula – This is…just what it says it is. Yowza. How to Speak Zombie – Learn the language and blend in seamlessly when the…
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Poison in Spaaace
Discovery Magazine’s Discoblog has a feature called NCBI ROFL which covers particularly odd scientific studies, such as the one that correlates eye color and sports performance or the one examining indentity exploration in World of Warcraft. They recently posted this gem from PubMed entitled, “The history of poisoning in the future: lessons from Star Trek.”…